Watch the above video. Now, granted, the technology isn’t perfect, yet. The balloon bangs into the edges of the fans, is fairly slow moving and, you know, is a helium-filled balloon and not a water-and-gas-and-excrement-filled human. But the idea is there. I swear it.

Here’s more on Fututrama’s futurey transport system (although, let’s not forget, the Jetsons did it first):